Without the constraints of building on Earth, engineers look to expand the capabilities of what space structures can do.
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A retrospective on the impactful U-M career of departing dean Alec D. Gallimore.
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Alec Gallimore upcycled a lunar rover testing chamber into a world-class electric propulsion center.
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It was believed that running more propellant through a Hall thruster would wreck its efficiency, but new experiments suggest they might power a crewed mission to Mars.
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A new attack discovered by the University of Michigan and NASA exploits a trusted network technology to create unexpected and potentially catastrophic behavior
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Mechanical engineers at the University of Michigan are tackling mysteries of bone density loss in space and on Earth.
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NASA undertakes a comprehensive look at a critical atmospheric buffer between us and the sun, powered in part by University of Michigan researchers and alumni.
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Meet the U-M researcher who helped pioneer the CubeSat—and a new era in space exploration.
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Before Bouman became the face of the project that brought us the first ever image of a black hole, she was wowing ECE professors with design projects and hoarding Domino’s pizza with her HKN family.
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University of Michigan researchers were able to accurately predict when and where the probe would cross an important barrier in the sun’s atmosphere.
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